Lauren Duran is responsible for developing and overseeing the execution of all Foundation communications.  With more than 15 years of senior management experience in health communications, Lauren oversees all strategic and operational communications initiatives including leadership and oversight of media relations, public relations, marketing, publications, and the website. Lauren came to the Foundation from The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse where she served as the Director or Communications. Her prior experience includes Senior Public Relations Manager/Publicist for the CEOs of the fashion brand FUBU and writing and producing television programming for a wide range of network cable channels. Her credits include PBS’s Emmy® Award-winning Reading Rainbow, Martha Stewart’s Home for the Holidays: The Family Tree and Lifetime’s Intimate Portraits of Sally Field, Audrey Hepburn and Bette Davis.